Recommendations for DNS

> 
> >   From owner-dns-wg at ripe.net Thu May 14 15:54:09 1998
> >   From: Hans Niklasson <hasse at swip.net>
> 
> Hans,
> 
> > Illegal characters: 
> >         
> >         Only a-z , 0-9 and - is valid to use. All other characters is
> >         illegal and can cause the resolving to fail.
> 
> I think it is worthwile at least mentioning that this restriction applies
> to _hostnames_ (e.g. right hand side of NS or MX records). This does not
> necessarily apply elsewhere. The third document you give as additional
> reading (draft-ietf-dnsind-classless-inaddr-04.txt) does use a character
> that is not in the set above (slash).
> 
> This topic is very well clarified in RFC 2181 chapter 11. (Name syntax).
> 
> Best regards,
> Janos

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        BCP 20:
        RFC 2317:

        Title:      Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation
        Author(s):  H. Eidnes, G. de Groot, P. Vixie
        Status:     Best Current Practice
        Date:       March 1998
        Mailbox:    Havard.Eidnes at runit.sintef.no,
                    GeertJan.deGroot at bsdi.com,
                    paul at vix.com
        Pages:      10
        Characters: 17744
        Updates/Obsoletes: None

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2317.txt



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